What I'm up to - January 2023

✨ Highlights of last month

Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays
Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest
Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to social networks" and "How to replace social media with a personal newsletter", which were popular online

🤔 Things and thoughts to share

Articles I've been reading: ‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes, How I got my attention back, Overton window (Wikipedia)
Been reading Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami. Lots of great insights - including how he avoids writer's block.
Been drinking the Prolog Jorge Vasquez Geisha, which is one of the better coffees I've had. Also, I've been enjoying a Kenyan coffee from Kahiwa Coffee Roasters in Finland. Kahiwa caught my attention because it's co-owned by F1 driver Valtteri Bottas.
PromptHunt aggregates the prompts that people are using with AI. "Prompt developer" is an emerging job.
Apple's new end-to-end iCloud encryption is a win for consumer privacy - I'm in the process of switching from Google Photos to iCloud because of this.
Why are we rating everything? A former #1 restaurant in the world only has 4.6 stars on Google. Is that really useful?

📫 What I'm up to this month

Adding lots of refinements to Postcard, and helping people switch over from Twitters's Revue product
Working on some interesting projects with crypto and AI

📍 Where I'll be (Let me know if we overlap!)

Turns out my dog likes beaches